Salad? Urgh! I’ll have chips and sausages, no greens

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Henry Dimbleby is rewriting the rules of school dinners: serve better food, and don’t provide children with choice

It’s hard at first for Henry Dimbleby to think back to the school food of his
childhood, but once he starts, the memories come in a Proustian flood. On
the downside were the “rows of mini milk bottles left out to warm in the
sun, so that the cream set fast in the neck like a posset, too clogged up to
get any milk out” and the “overcooked vegetables; very, very institutional”.
Looked forward to, however, were the days with the semolina with the “little
blob of strawberry jam in the middle; that was rather good”, the Tottenham
cake sprinkled

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Schoolchildren queuing for toast after morning assembly

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1956: children at the new London County Council School, Eltham Green Comprehensive in Woolwich, queue up to be served their school dinners